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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Prologue 1 - What made me write the BOOK - "Todays Engineer and MBA to Tomorrows Future Leader"

Today with the flood of Engineering and MBA
colleges getting an IT job or campus placements have become the craze and trend
across each cities and countries across the world. The passed out Graduates and
Post graduates are very eager and excited in their first year of joining the
company which is short-lived for most of them. Post completion of 1-2 years or
3-5 years and as they move towards 7-9 years or even 10-15 years, 95 percent of
these Professionals feel the lack of direction and roadmap how to move forward.
The question in most of the professionals mind is how to grow beyond these
Technical & Coding roles to pure Consulting and Strategic roles. They start
to question themselves are they going to do this kind of Technical work like
coding or de-bugging and bug-fixing or support activities all their life till
their age of retirement? May be there is change of position from Software
Engineer to Team Lead or even Project Management roles but still the whole work
revolves around the same Technical role. A role to carry out the same mechanical
and monotonous activities day in and day out.

Among all these above professionals, again
90% of them desire to go for onsite opportunities to do the same coding or
support work all through their life. They get into a comfort zone where money
takes precedent over ambitions and dreams of life. Slowly they get used to this
stereotype and mechanical life. In a way they compromise their career
aspiration and dreams to be someday Future Leaders in form of Principal
Consultant or Business Specialist or even Practice Leader of the company in
their lifetime. There are few others who would have crossed 15 to 20 years or
more than that, start thinking of Retirement from these transactional and
repeated activities. They lack the interest of doing such monotonous activity in
the company which was one day a joy and excitement for them when they had
joined post getting their degrees. So with no clear Guidance and Roadmap in
life for moving forward towards Transformational roles, they give up their
dreams to “Be the Change” in making a real difference at the company level and
over a period of time for the Society and Country.